From the University of Liverpool News: In a new podcast, Dr. Peter Kinderman, the vice-president of the British Psychological Society, argues that emotional distress is not caused by “mental illness” but by social problems such as unemployment, bullying, and child abuse.
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I wish that MiA would return to its former policy of putting reprinted headlines in quotes, so as not to lend legitimacy to terms like “mental health” and “mental illness.”